Working the Line: How Prison Labor Intersects with Megafires with Jaime Lowe

Please register here for this free event.

Everyone is invited to attend this live Zoom event with Jaime Lowe. She'll be exploring connections between the prison system and firefighting in her talk "Working the Line: How Prison Labor Intersects with Megafires."

This talk is part of Spring Creek Project's lecture series "Lookout: Envisioning Futures with Wildfire."

Lowe was born and raised in California. Her book Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires weaves the underlying catastrophes of climate change, economic disparity, and historical injustice. She is also the author of Mental, a memoir about lithium and bipolar disorder, and Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB, a biography of Ol' Dirty Bastard. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times magazine and other national and international publications. Lowe has contributed to This American Life and Radiolab, and has been featured on NPR and WNYC numerous times. She is a MacDowell and Logan Non-fiction fellow.

"Lookout: Envisioning Futures with Wildfire" is an 11-week series exploring how we are shaping this era of megafires and how it is shaping us. Speakers from across the arts, humanities, and environmental sciences will help us scan the horizon for the ideas and stories that can guide us through this critical and disorienting time.

SCHEDULE
Talks in the series will be broadcast live on Zoom Tuesdays at 6 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. CST / 9 p.m. EST from January 4 to March 15. Learn more and register for other talks here: https://bit.ly/3lHTlex

This series is hosted by the Spring Creek Project and the Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative at Oregon State University and co-sponsored by OSU's Center for the Humanities and Sustainability Office. Lowe's lecture is also co-sponsored by Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, Grass Roots Books & Music, and OSU's School of Writing, Literature, and Film.